Throwback Thursday: The 2001 Neshaminy State Champion Season
As a Suburban One League fan and follower I was at once thrilled and surprised by the Redskins 2001 climb to gold. The thrills were, 1) seeing a team I had first begun to follow in 1951 win it, and, 2) seeing a second Suburban One team win a state championship. The surprise was that […]
Throwback Thursday: 2013 PIAA Class AAA Football Championship
Archbishop Wood (12) vs. Bishop McDevitt
Throwback Thursday: The Last Game
The high-school football documentary The Last Game depicts one season of one of the best teams in Pennsylvania, Central Bucks West. Led by star running back Dustin Picciotti and coach Mike Pettine Sr., the team attempts to continue a winning streak that has been maintained through the previous two seasons. The biggest threat they face […]
Throwback Thursday: Calamity to Championship in 2004 for Tigers
A look back at Southern Columbia’s undefeated season a decade ago Written by: Dave Fegley (@dfegs9) Friday nights from early September until sometimes as late as mid December mean one thing to me, Southern Columbia Tiger football. Even though I will only be turning 24 during this football season, I have had the privilege of being […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1977 Bensalem Fighting Owls
The Bensalem Owls have had a checkered existence, and before we take up the fine 1977 edition a little history is in order. Bensalem Township abuts the City of Philadelphia in the river Northeast area. The Owls began football in 1930 as an independent squad, going 1-4-1 (a). They were in the old Lower Bucks […]
Throwback Thursday: 2004 Cardinal O’Hara Lions season
The following is written in the Loving Memory of Coach Dan Algeo, who suddenly passed on July 3,2014 from complications of a heart attack at the age of 49. Coach, I love you and this one is for you On January 12, 2004, a new era of Cardinal O’Hara Football was ushered in when it […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1988 Suburban One National Conference Season
The 1988 season was one of great expectation for all high school football fans; this year we would crown on-field champions in all four classes for the first time. At this time the Sub One League was divided into two conferences, each with two divisions. The National Conference was Patriot Division – Bensalem, Council Rock, […]
Throwback Thursday: One Great Game Day
In 2001 one of our football group and I motored from Bucks County out to Coatesville on Friday night November 30th for the Class 3A Eastern Final between Strath Haven D1 and Manheim Central D3. We were surprised on arrival to see no activity, no busses, no early crowd, and no lit field. It had […]
Throwback Thursday: The Woodrow Wilson Golden Rams 1959-1980
The great influx of population into lower Bucks County from 1950 to 1960 occasioned by the construction of the Fairless Steel plant in Falls Township fueled tremendous growth in local area school systems. The greatest growth was seen in the Pennsbury, Neshaminy, and Bristol Township School Districts. While Pennsbury and Neshaminy did not immediately establish […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1996 C B East Patriots
Central Bucks East was opened in 1969 in Holicong, PA, a rural setting, as the second Central Bucks School District High School. At that time coach Mike Pettine was in his third season at what then became Central Bucks West in Doylestown. Prior to 1969 the Doylestown school was Central Bucks High School. I did […]
Throwback Thursday: 1958 Easton Red Rovers
1958 Easton Red Rovers by Hal Wilson The Easton Red Rovers have had many outstanding teams in the past 100 or so years. The very best at the Forks of the Delaware may have been the great 1958 edition of the Rovers. This team marched through a difficult nine game schedule, climaxing a marvelous season with […]
Throwback Thursday: The Defense Rests
One of the joys of high school football is analogous to a line from the movies when Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump says, “Life is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re gonna get.” It is not always the case, as upsets do not seem common anymore; and favorites usually come through, but […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1969 Mount Carmel Area
by Hal Wilson In 1969, Mt. Carmel fielded perhaps the greatest team in its long and storied football history. The Red Tornadoes won 12 straight, climaxing a brilliant season with a 47-6 rout of Valley View in the Eastern Conference championship game. Valley View was a new combination of Blakely, Jessup and Archbald – Blakely […]
Throwback Thursday: The Decade of the Bucks – Part Two
Following the Bucks as I did in the mid-1990s you got the sense of a snowball rolling downhill gathering momentum and size. The coaching situation was stable and committed, not that there weren’t changes as assistant and special coaches came and went. But there was also a sense of community, a very active booster club […]
Throwback Thursday: The Decade of the Bucks – Part One
The 1990-1999 decade of the nineties belonged to the Central Bucks West Bucks’. The Bucks played 129 games in this time, and won 121 of them posting a decade record of 121-8. This winning percentage of 93.8% was first in the state for the 1990s for 608 football-playing schools. Although Berwick was first in total […]
Throwback Thursday: Pennsylvania Scholastic All-State Candidates – 1919 to 1938
by Hal Wilson 1938 Casey Ploszay, HB, McKeesport Bob Longacre, HB, Johnstown Bill Rogel, G, North Braddock Scott Joe Andrejco, HB, Hazleton George Cheverko, HB, Hazleton Steve Filipowicz, HB, Kulpmont Joe Pezelski, HB, Kulpmont 1937 Edgar Jones, HB, Scranton Tech Bud Bossick, HB, Windber George Bokinsky, HB, Windber Dusan Maronic, G, Steelton Bob Ufer, […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1989 Abington Galloping Ghosts
I first saw Abington in 1978 at Pennsbury in an afternoon non-league game won by Pennsbury 28-14. I did not pick the Ghosts up for my records until 1988 when I added most of the teams I now follow; in addition to the Lower Bucks County League schools I began with in 1951. I did […]
Throwback Thursday: The 2003 North Penn Knights
by Hal Wilson The North Penn Knights have dominated PIAA AAAA District One football since the turn of the Century. In the ten years since Dick Beck became Head Coach, the Knights have won six District One titles. The best North Penn team of all was the 2003 squad – this mighty machine combined speed […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1958 Morrisville Bulldogs Spawns Two Pros
Current readers, unless they have some age on them, would not think that this struggling program today; once played on even terms with Neshaminy, Pennsbury, and other now prominent big schools. A small, Class A program, the Bulldogs now seem to have a constant struggle to even field a team. In fact, in 2001, a […]
Throwback Thursday: The 1998 CB West Bucks
I have been privileged to see many good high school football teams in my lifetime. I am not old, but I have been young for a long time now! While I cannot truly distinguish the “best” team ever on a basis of player-for-player, era-to-era, and other comparatives as well; as anyone else does I try […]
